The pieces in "The Eye above the Well" are of three types -- porcelain works, smoke-fired stoneware (apparently the oldest way to bake clay) and stoneware-raku (a Japanese approach to hand-forming clay).

It had been reassessed in France by the artist Jules Ziegler (1804-56) as early as the 1840s, but it was mainly during the Paris Worlds Fair of 1878 that the craze for 3apanese stoneware began to have a real influence on French ceramicists.

Deaf as a Cannon is a Goliath-scaled, but otherwise exacting, replica in brown stoneware clay of an ornament-encrusted sixteenth-century Milanese burgonet helmet from the armor collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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